Fade To Black Part 21
Lzzy Hale
How Halestorm wound up playing Ronnie James Dio’s final show
Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale on stage in Chicago, December 13, 2009
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LIKE SO MANY of the bands that were offered a spot on the Back to the Beginning bill, Halestorm came back with an instant “yes.” Well — not that instant. “We got an email from Sharon Osbourne,” says Halestorm guitarist Lzzy Hale. “When the email came in, I didn’t answer it for two days because I was like, ‘What the hell is going on? Are we meant to have this email?’ It was very hush-hush; no one was talking about it or knew anything about it. It was such a crazy feeling when it was confirmed that we were being asked to play at this monumental event.”
How important was Sabbath in terms of your musical development?
When I was a kid, my ABCs of rock ’n’ roll were Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Cinderella and Dio. The first riff I ever learned was “Heaven and Hell,” so you can imagine that my inner-child was screaming at the top of her lungs, “I’d walk on broken glass to get there! I want to play this show!”